I’ve been slowly playing with things since, started a website, and working out what book to write next. This is a bit of a fun art project turned side project, and thoughts and ideas are welcome!
Writing a book is a perfect way to learn how to prompt . I am doing it now and found out that there are certain limitations that should be remembered (I use ChatGPT 5):
The number of words is limited in the text, around 5000 words. So, if you have a long chapter to write, you need to do it in shorter scenes. If, for some reason, you exceed that limit, ChatGPT initiates optimization and shortens previously completed parts without notice. I asked to put in the project memory that, after each print, give me the number of words, which helps to control.
It is not easy to say what is remembered and what is not, and AI is trying to improvise instead of following an agreed plan.
The best way, for me, was to save each scene to the Word file, combine them manually, upload the file back to ChatGPT, and continue. Saved me tons of time and frustrations with losing my text